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Radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin
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Very small samples from the Shroud of Turin have been dated by accelerator mass spectrometry in laboratories at Arizona, Oxford and Zurich. As controls, three samples whose ages had been determined independently were also dated. The results provide conclusive evidence that the linen of the Shroud of Turin is mediaeval.
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“This debris would have been removed by the various pretreatments used in Damon et al. (1989), which included standard acid-base-acid treatments, and ultrasonic cleaning in water or detergents for different fractions.”
From Investigating a Dated Piece of the Shroud of Turin (2010) · cites this paper as Damon et al. (1989)
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“In contrast to other reports on less-documented material, we find no evidence to contradict the idea that the sample studied was taken from the main part of the shroud, as reported by Damon et al. (1989).”
From Investigating a Dated Piece of the Shroud of Turin (2010) · cites this paper as Damon et al. (1989)
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“However, it seems the authors failed to conduct standard statistical tests for homogeneity among the inter-and intralaboratory data, a necessary step to justify combining the data as they did.”
From An instructive inter-laboratory comparison: The 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin (2020) · cites this paper as Damon et al. (1989)
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“We note that the heterogeneity issue for the Shroud sample is less readily apparent in their presentation because they expressed their p-values as per-cent quantities, rounding the results down to the nearest integer values for the control samples but up to the same precision level for Sample #1.”
From An instructive inter-laboratory comparison: The 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin (2020) · cites this paper as Damon et al. (1989)
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“The samples were randomly selected and independently assigned to the individual laboratories.”
From An instructive inter-laboratory comparison: The 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin (2020) · cites this paper as Damon et al. (1989)
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“We find that amounts of this material in the areal density range 1.5-2.5 mg/cm 2 may be sufficient to bring the results of Damon et al. (1989) for Sample #1 into agreement if this is the sole source of contamination.”
From An instructive inter-laboratory comparison: The 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin (2020) · cites this paper as Damon et al. (1989)
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“The overall conclusion is that Damon et al. (1989) did not follow the W-W recommendation to reconsider the data.”
From An instructive inter-laboratory comparison: The 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin (2020) · cites this paper as Damon et al. (1989)
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“This procedure is inappropriate since it deliberately ignores the heterogeneous nature of the data uncovered by the analysis and introduces error into the statistical analysis.”
From An instructive inter-laboratory comparison: The 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin (2020) · cites this paper as Damon et al. (1989)
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“They then estimated the standard error of that mean by combining the standard errors of those means as if all the data were drawn from the same population.”
From An instructive inter-laboratory comparison: The 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin (2020) · cites this paper as Damon et al. (1989)
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“Our review and analysis of the Shroud radiocarbon data reveal a significant shortcoming in the original report by Damon et al. (1989).”
From An instructive inter-laboratory comparison: The 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin (2020) · cites this paper as Damon et al. (1989)
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“Rather, they chose to weight equally each of the three means -the scatter-weighted Tucson 2) using the standard error of the mean data and the quoted error-weighted Zurich and Oxford data -to find their arithmetic mean.”
From An instructive inter-laboratory comparison: The 1988 radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin (2020) · cites this paper as Damon et al. (1989)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Damon, P. E., Donahue, D. J., Gore, B. H., Hatheway, A. L., Jull, A. J. T., Linick, T. W., Sercel, P. J., Toolin, L. J., Bronk, C. R., Hall, E. T., Hedges, R. E. M., Housley, R., Law, I. A., Perry, C., Bonani, G., Trumbore, S., Woelfli, W., Ambers, J. C., Bowman, S. G. E., Leese, M. N., & Tite, M. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Arizona (US)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- Columbia University (US)
- British Museum (GB)
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1989-02
- Volume
- 337
- Issue
- 6208
- Pages
- 611-615
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1998268672
- Semantic Scholar
- 489ab47a3baf05ecd0cd14281c02cc15710e1a17
- Cited by
- 239
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 10
- FWCI
- 10.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- escholarship.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Royal Holloway Digital Repository (Royal Holloway University of London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions
- Keywords
- Shroud of Turin, radiocarbon dating, accelerator mass spectrometry, linen, medieval textiles, authenticity, carbon-14
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